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Introduction of HTML

HTML is the language used to create web pages and make them functional. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee and others in 1989 and stands for Hypertext Markup Language. HTML uses tags and attributes, with tags marking up elements and attributes providing additional information. The basic structure of an HTML page includes tags such as <!DOCTYPE html>, <html>, <head>, and <body>.

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Introduction of HTML

HTML is the language used to create web pages and make them functional. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee and others in 1989 and stands for Hypertext Markup Language. HTML uses tags and attributes, with tags marking up elements and attributes providing additional information. The basic structure of an HTML page includes tags such as <!DOCTYPE html>, <html>, <head>, and <body>.

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HTML for Absolute Beginners

What is HTML?

HTML is the language in which most websites are written. HTML is used to create
pages and make them functional.The code used to make them visually appealing
is known as CSS and we shall focus on this in a later tutorial. For now, we will
focus on teaching you how to build rather than design.

HTML was first created by Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and others starting
in 1989. It stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

Hypertext means that the document contains links that allow the reader to jump
to other places in the document or to another document altogether. The latest
version is known as HTML5.

A Markup Language is a way that computers speak to each other to control how
text is processed and presented. To do this HTML uses two things: tags
and attributes.

What Are HTML Tags?

Tags are used to mark up the start of an HTML element and they are usually
enclosed in angle brackets. An example of a tag is: <h1>.

Most tags must be opened <h1> and closed </h1> in order to function.

What are HTML Attributes?

Attributes contain additional pieces of information. Attributes take the form of an


opening tag and additional info is placed inside.

An example of an attribute is:

<img src="mydog.jpg" alt="A photo of my dog.">


In this instance, the image source (src) and the alt text (alt) are attributes of
the <img> tag.
Basic Construction of an HTML Page

These tags should be placed underneath each other at the top of every HTML
page that you create.

<!DOCTYPE html> — This tag specifies the language you will write on the page. In
this case, the language is HTML 5.

<html> — This tag signals that from here on we are going to write in HTML code.

<head> — This is where all the metadata for the page goes — stuff mostly meant
for search engines and other computer programs.

<body> — This is where the content of the page goes.

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